Portland State University has initiated disciplinary proceedings against their philosophy professor Peter Boghossian for conspiring with colleagues to submit more than two dozen satirical papers to feminist theory and race-studies journals in an effort to prove those disciplines are academically fraudulent. The hoax papers, some of which were accepted by journals and which were revealed back in October, made Boghossian and his cohorts the international toast of "free thinkers" concerned that college campuses have become paralyzed by political orthodoxy.
After their ruse was revealed, the three authors described their project in an October article in the webzine Areo, which Pluckrose edits. Their goal, they wrote, was to "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research." They contend that scholarship that tends to social grievances now dominates some fields, where students and others are bullied into adhering to scholars' worldviews, while lax publishing standards allow the publication of clearly ludicrous articles if the topic is politically fashionable.
Sources:
The Chronicle of Higher Education : Proceedings Start Against 'Sokal Squared' Hoax Professor (archive)
Willamette Week : Professor Who Authored Hoax Papers Says Portland State University Has Launched Disciplinary Proceedings Against Him (archive)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:00AM (4 children)
The unspoken reason: It's a profit center. The college's donors are paying for it.
Which donors? Money launderers for foreign psychological warfare departments.
Reminder: there was near zero [catbox.moe] discussion of "privilege" and "microaggressions" and all that stuff in 2011, even on far left college campuses. Someone paid for it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:13PM (2 children)
Yea right.
Like alumni donors and the state of Oregon?
I notice that the link you referred to throws out US intelligence and the FBI as your "foreign psychological warfare departments". And the jargon of the snowflake movement changes all the time. It's not relevant that terms in use now came about in the past few years. That's the nature of the beast which is viciously status signaling. A key way to status signal (particularly among people who can barely afford the lifestyle) is using the latest and shiniest vocabulary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:09PM (1 child)
Here are some snowflakes with experience rooting out infiltration by GPU and FBI assets [wsws.org]. Daniel Golden’s Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and foreign intelligence secretly exploit America’s universities [wsws.org]:
More recent links:
Portland State University threatens to fire Peter Boghossian for authoring “Grievance Studies” hoax [wsws.org]
US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson targeted by #MeToo campaign [wsws.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:08AM
In other words, a small number of academics also worth for US intelligence. Not much point to the entire two quotes you copied. So many words to say so very little.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:44PM
I personally know someone who was active on a far left college campus in 2011.
There was a lot of discussion of privilege, and the checking thereof, and the nature of privilege in determining complicity in, or victimisation by, various forms of bigotry.
If you think that this cropped up in the last ten years, I have an inside line on a bridge going cheap.